Coeur en Hiver

UPC: 741952308690

Studio: Koch Lorber Films

Summary: Daniel Auteuil and Emmanuelle B?art from Manon of the Spring (1986) co-star once again in Un Coeur en Hiver, playing characters whose distance from each others' lives belies the enormous emotional impact they have on one another. Directed by Claude Sautet, whose 40-year career included the Oscar-winning C?sar et Rosalie (1972), Un Coeur en Hiver is a remarkably restrained film with torrents of feeling just under the surface. Auteuil plays Stephane, partner in an exclusive violin brokerage. His older business partner Maxime (Andre Dussolier) has a lovely new violinist girlfriend, Camille (B?art), who stirs Stephane but is ultimately rejected by him, sending all three characters into a spin that destroys their delicate, symbiotic balance. Hovering over this story is an unusual musical motif that is key to the characters' inner motivations. Violins play, and play on camera, all through the film, but the nature of Stephane's craft, Camille's career, and Maxime's profits is that the music can always be refined, tinkered with, changed with a twist of this or a bit of that. That's precisely how they conduct their relationships and lives -- with a fragile sense of security and no idea when to stop manipulating life for effect. ~ Tom Keogh, Rovi

Category: Drama

Awards: Best Foreign Language Film – British Academy of Film and Television Arts Best Director – French Academy of Cinema Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion – French Academy of Cinema Best Actor – European Film Academy Best Foreign Film – National Board of Review Silver Lion – Venice International Film Festival Best Supporting Actor – French Academy of Cinema

Features: Claude Sautet interview
French tv appearances by Claude Sautet and Andr? Dussollier
Excerpt from the documentary Claude Sautet ou la Magie invisible
Original French theatrical trailer
4 page booklet with essay by film critic Michel Boujut

Coeur en Hiver

Format: DVD

Release Date: 11/07/2006

Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1 Vistavision

Audio: DD1 Dolby Digital Mono, DD5.1 Dolby Digital 5.1

Runtime: 101 Minutes

Sides: 1

Number of Discs: 1

Language(s) French

Subtitles: English

Chapters: Disc #1 -- Un Coeur en Hiver
1. Working Together [6:12]
2. Maxime's Revelation [5:36]
3. In Need of Repair [8:15]
4. Mututal Dislike [8:26]
5. St?phane's Small Adjustment [11:59]
6. Time for a Short Break [10:43]
7. Turning Away From Camille [7:39]
8. Reading St?phane [7:56]
9. Rejecting an Advance [1:11]
10. Packing His Bags [13:42]
11. Lachaume's Silent Request [7:52]
12. Seeing Each Other Again [9:43]

Mark Pittillo

A gorgeously subtle examination of an unusual love triangle, Un coeur en hiver is a triumph for all involved. The film follows of a pair of business partners (Andr? Dussolier and Daniel Auteuil), who run an exclusive stringed-instrument workshop, and the beautiful and talented violinist (Emmanuelle B?art) who comes between them. At first, it seems like standard material, but Claude Sautet's film is unique in that the characters' inevitable ruin is brought on not by an illicit affair but by the contemplation of an illicit affair. Thus the film becomes a moving, if occasionally frustrating, portrait of emotional frigidity. Sautet's subdued and perfectly paced direction (for which he won a French C?sar award) and the script, by Yves Ulmann, Jacques Fi?schi, and Jerome Tonn?rre from a short story by Mikhail Lermontov, frame three superlative performances. Dussollier, who also picked up a C?sar, hits all the right notes as the gregarious Maxime, and Auteuil is consistently fascinating, subtly hinting at hidden depths beneath Stephane's maddeningly enigmatic mug. B?art's Camille, though, is at the heart of the film, and her performance is both technically flawless (she studied the violin for more than a year before filming) and emotionally harrowing. The film also features a stunning Ravel soundtrack, performed by violinist Jean-Jacques Kantorow. ~ Mark Pittillo, Rovi

Cast and Crew: Van Doude  Actor 
Anne Macina  Actor 
Stanislas Carre de Malberg  Actor 
Jean-Claude Bouillaud  Actor 
Francois Domange  Actor 
Nanou Garcia  Actor 
Philippe Carcassonne  Producer 
Jacques Fieschi  Screenwriter 
Jean-Louis Livi  Producer 
Claude Sautet  Director 
Claude Sautet  Screenwriter 
Jerome Tonnerre  Screenwriter 
Yves Ulmann  Screenwriter 
Daniel Auteuil  Actor 
Emmanuelle Béart  Actor 
André Dussollier  Actor 
Elizabeth Bourgine  Actor 
Myriam Boyer  Actor 
Jean-Luc Bideau  Actor 
Brigitte Catillon  Actor 
Maurice Garrel  Actor 

Country: France